Patents by Inventor Ronald King
Ronald King has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20220192584Abstract: Devices and methods for providing sensory feedback during an exercise are disclosed. An exertion target is set, for a user performing the exercise, based on a self-calibration that estimates the user's ability using signal amplitudes of surface electromyography (sEMG) data, wherein the exertion target includes a target signal amplitude of muscle contractions to be reached during the exercise. sEMG data are received from a measurement device attached to the user as the user performs the exercise. Upon processing the sEMG data, sensory feedback is generated at a computing device operated by the user, wherein the sensory feedback has an intensity proportional to the user's exertion level as the user performs the exercise, and wherein the sensory feedback changes over a course of the exercise in dependence on a duration that the user maintains a muscle contraction at or above the target signal amplitude, and the change in sensory feedback is configured to encourage the user to prolong the duration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Jana Maureen RIEGER, Gabriela CONSTANTINESCU, Mark James REDMOND, Dylan Kyle SCOTT, Benjamin Ronald KING, Mark Vernon FEDORAK, Herman LUNDGREN
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Patent number: 11304651Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring patients with dysphagia, or swallowing impairments, that monitors muscle movement during intensive swallowing exercises to provide adjuvant visual feedback from surface electromyography.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignees: THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, COVENANT HEALTHInventors: Jana Maureen Rieger, Gabriela Constantinescu, Mark James Redmond, Dylan Kyle Scott, Benjamin Ronald King, Mark Vernon Fedorak, Herman Lundgren
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Publication number: 20210068740Abstract: Devices and methods for providing interactivity during a swallowing exercise are disclosed. Sensory guidance is presented to guide a user through a set of swallows to be completed by the user during the swallowing exercise. Signals are received from a sensor device worn by the user, the signals representing surface electromyography data obtained when the user performs the swallowing exercise. Sensory feedback of the user's exertion level is presented, the feedback generated from the electromyography data and updated as further electromyography data is received from the sensor device, wherein the sensory feedback is presented in association with an exertion level calibrated to the user's ability.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Jana Maureen RIEGER, Gabriela CONSTANTINESCU, Mark James REDMOND, Dylan Kyle SCOTT, Benjamin Ronald KING, Mark Vernon FEDORAK, Herman LUNDGREN
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Patent number: 10579977Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling certificate-based open payment transactions involving a merchant and a customer utilizing various types of networks and terminals. Prior to accessing a merchant POS terminal or, for example, a merchant website, a customer obtains a certificate from a service provider (SP), such as a bank, certifying his identification (ID) and his relevant financial information, in a form that is understandable by the SP. The SP is capable of performing multiple functions. For example, the SP is capable of acting as a certificate authority when it issues the customer's certificates, an authenticator when it receives private-key encrypted certificates from the customers to be decrypted using the corresponding public-key, and an authorizing authority when it checks the value available in a customer' chosen payment account against the requested purchase or transfer amount.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)Inventors: Joseph Kawan, Ronald King-Hang Chu, Charles Golvin, Peter Tompkins
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Patent number: 10373141Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling certificate-based open payment transactions involving a merchant and a customer utilizing various types of networks and terminals. Prior to accessing a merchant POS terminal or, for example, a merchant website, a customer obtains a certificate from a service provider (SP), such as a bank, certifying his identification (ID) and his relevant financial information, in a form that is understandable by the SP. The SP is capable of performing multiple functions. For example, the SP is capable of acting as a certificate authority when it issues the customer's certificates, an authenticator when it receives private-key encrypted certificates from the customers to be decrypted using the corresponding public-key, and an authorizing authority when it checks the value available in a customer' chosen payment account against the requested purchase or transfer amount.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)Inventors: Joseph C. Kawan, Ronald King-Hang Chu, Charles Golvin, Peter Tompkins
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Patent number: 9928491Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling certificate-based open payment transactions involving a merchant and a customer utilizing various types of networks and terminals. Prior to accessing a merchant POS terminal or, for example, a merchant website, a customer obtains a certificate from a service provider (SP), such as a bank, certifying his identification (ID) and his relevant financial information, in a form that is understandable by the SP. The SP is capable of performing multiple functions. For example, the SP is capable of acting as a certificate authority when it issues the customer's certificates, an authenticator when it receives private-key encrypted certificates from the customers to be decrypted using the corresponding public-key, and an authorizing authority when it checks the value available in a customer' chosen payment account against the requested purchase or transfer amount.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)Inventors: Joseph C. Kawan, Ronald King-Hang Chu, Charles Golvin, Peter Tompkins
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Patent number: 9768963Abstract: Methods and systems for secure user authentication using a OTP involve, for example, pre-storing a OTP application on a first computing device for generating a valid OTP value for the user responsive to receiving entry of a valid PIN value of the user, no part of the valid PIN value is stored on the first computing device and pre-storing on a back-end server the valid PIN value and a valid shared secret for the user. Upon receiving entry of a purported PIN value of the user, a purported shared secret is dynamically synthesized on the first computing device by the OTP application based on the purported PIN value of the user and a purported OTP value is generated on the first computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)Inventors: Ronald King-Hang Chu, Mark Kogen, Warren Tan, Simon Ma, Yosif Smushkovich, Gerry Glindro, Jeffrey William Coyte Nicholas
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Publication number: 20170188934Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring patients with dysphagia, or swallowing impairments, that monitors muscle movement during intensive swallowing exercises to provide adjuvant visual feedback from surface electromyography.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Jana Maureen RIEGER, Gabriela CONSTANTINESCU, Mark James REDMOND, Dylan Kyle SCOTT, Benjamin Ronald KING, Mark Vernon FEDORAK, Herman LUNDGREN
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Patent number: 9607292Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling certificate-based open payment transactions involving a merchant and a customer utilizing various types of networks and terminals. Prior to accessing a merchant POS terminal or, for example, a merchant website, a customer obtains a certificate from a service provider (SP), such as a bank, certifying his identification (ID) and his relevant financial information, in a form that is understandable by the SP. The SP is capable of performing multiple functions. For example, the SP is capable of acting as a certificate authority when it issues the customer's certificates, an authenticator when it receives private-key encrypted certificates from the customers to be decrypted using the corresponding public-key, and an authorizing authority when it checks the value available in a customer' chosen payment account against the requested purchase or transfer amount.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)Inventors: Joseph C. Kawan, Ronald King-Hang Chu, Charles Golvin, Peter Tompkins
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Patent number: 9002750Abstract: For secure user authentication using a one-time password (OTP) application is pre-stored on a device for generating a OTP value responsive to entry of a valid PIN, no part of the PIN is stored on the device and pre-storing on a server the PIN and a valid shared secret for the user. Upon receiving entry a purported PIN, a purported shared secret is dynamically synthesized on the device by the OTP application based on the purported PIN of the user and a purported OTP value is generated based on the purported shared secret. When entry of the purported OTP value is received by the server in an attempt to log on the server from another device, the server cryptographically calculates a purported shared secret based on the purported OTP value, and log on to the server from the other device is allowed if the calculated purported shared secret corresponds to the pre-stored shared secret.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)Inventors: Ronald King-Hang Chu, Mark Kogen, Warren Tan, Simon Ma, Yosif Smushkovich, Gerry Glindro, Jeffrey William Coyte Nicholas
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Publication number: 20120064138Abstract: The present invention relates to a biocidal composition comprising an inorganic compound and a polymer where the inorganic compound has been prepared using a controlled precipitation technique. The biocidal compositions overcome the settling and agglomeration problems of conventional inorganic biocidal compositions and offer enhanced activity, consistency, and stable long term release of the active species. The invention also relates to a method of preparation of the compositions and to their use as a biocidal composition and in making or coating articles comprising it.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2009Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: HARMAN TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: David Beveridge, Stephen Critchley, Karen Nicola Harvey, Jeffrey Ronald King, Kenneth Miller McCombe, Martyn Howard Pendlebury
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Patent number: 8117125Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling certificate-based open payment transactions involving a merchant and a customer utilizing various types of networks and terminals. Prior to accessing a merchant POS terminal or, for example, a merchant website, a customer obtains a certificate from a service provider (SP), such as a bank, certifying his identification (ID) and his relevant financial information, in a form that is understandable by the SP. The SP is capable of performing multiple functions. For example, the SP is capable of acting as a certificate authority when it issues the customer's certificates, an authenticator when it receives private-key encrypted certificates from the customers to be decrypted using the corresponding public-key, and an authorizing authority when it checks the value available in a customer' chosen payment account against the requested purchase or transfer amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2000Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Developement Center, Inc.Inventors: Joseph C. Kawan, Ronald King-Hang Chu, Charles Golvin, Peter Tompkins
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Publication number: 20110197266Abstract: Methods and systems for secure user authentication using a OTP involve, for example, pre-storing a OTP application on a first computing device for generating a valid OTP value for the user responsive to receiving entry of a valid PIN value of the user, no part of the valid PIN value is stored on the first computing device and pre-storing on a back-end server the valid PIN value and a valid shared secret for the user. Upon receiving entry of a purported PIN value of the user, a purported shared secret is dynamically synthesized on the first computing device by the OTP application based on the purported PIN value of the user and a purported OTP value is generated on the first computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Ronald King-Hang CHU, Mark Kogen, Warren Tan, Simon Ma, Yosif Smushkovich, Gerry Glindro, Jeffrey William Coyte Nicholas
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Patent number: 7904946Abstract: Methods and systems for secure user authentication utilizes OTP generation and validation techniques in which the shared secret for generating the OTP is not stored in the user's mobile device but instead is dynamically synthesized based on a PIN that activates the OTP generation and the personalized OTP data. The client software has no knowledge of what the correct PIN should be and always generates a normal looking OTP based on whatever PIN is entered, and the only way to learn whether or not the OTP is correct is to submit it during user login. By limiting the number of failed login attempts before the account is locked, brute-force attacks via the online channel will fail, and further, brute-force attacks to uncover the correct PIN for generating the correct OTP offline will also fail even if a hacker steals the user's mobile device and extracts the data inside for offline hacking, because there is nothing on the client that contains the PIN or encrypted by the PIN.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Ronald King-Hang Chu, Mark Kogen, Warren Tan, Simon Ma, Yosif Smushkovich, Gerry Glindro, Jeffrey William Coyte Nicholas
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Patent number: 7780334Abstract: A lamp for a decorative light string includes an LED received within a translucent cover and mounted in a fixture including a cover holder and base which are mutually connected. The cover is received in the cover holder and electrical cables are secured to the base. The cover holder is, in turn, received in the base in a manner allowing simple and reliable electrical connection between the post and anvil of the LED and the conductors of the cable. The cover is elongate and has a closed end defining a concave/convex lens portion. Ribs are provided on the cover for connection to the cover holder and an internal shoulder in the cover is provided for abutting the LED.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Packway Industries LimitedInventor: Ronald King Yiu Fung
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Publication number: 20100102924Abstract: A remote control system and a method of control. The system includes a control module that facilitates execution of a set of functions, a remote control device that wirelessly communicates with the control module, and an input signal. The input signal is provided to the control module and includes data that is associated with ambient lighting. Polling of the remote control device by the control module is deactivated for a subset of the set of functions when the data is indicative of sufficient ambient lighting.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Ronald King, Riad Ghabra, John Nantz, Bryan Vartanian
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Publication number: 20100067242Abstract: A lamp for a decorative light string includes an LED received within a translucent cover and mounted in a fixture including a cover holder and base which are mutually connected. The cover is received in the cover holder and electrical cables are secured to the base. The cover holder is, in turn, received in the base in a manner allowing simple and reliable electrical connection between the post and anvil of the LED and the conductors of the cable. The cover is elongate and has a closed end defining a concave/convex lens portion. Ribs are provided on the cover for connection to the cover holder and an internal shoulder in the cover is provided for abutting the LED.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2008Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: PACKWAY INDUSTRIES LIMITEDInventor: Ronald King Yiu Fung
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Patent number: 7518495Abstract: A universal monitor to be mounted in a tire of a vehicle, the monitor for use in a remote tire pressure monitoring system for the vehicle. The monitor includes a sensor for sensing tire pressure, and a storage device for storing a plurality of codes, each code comprising at least a data format. The monitor also includes a transmitter in communication with the sensor and the storage device, the transmitter for transmitting a wireless signal including data representing the sensed tire pressure. The wireless signal is transmitted by the transmitter according to at least one of the stored plurality of codes.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2003Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Tom Tang, John Nantz, Riad Ghabra, Thomas LeMense, Ronald King, Jan Supronowicz
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Patent number: 7512224Abstract: A communication monitor for transferring a communication to a second recipient from a first recipient includes an identifier receiver that receives at least one subscriber-defined transfer identifier that can be invoked by the first recipient to redirect the communication from the first recipient. The communication monitor also includes a communication transferor that monitors the communication and coordinates transferring the communication to the second recipient from the first recipient in response to the communication monitor monitoring a signal from the first recipient after the first recipient invokes an elective communication-transfer function using at least one subscriber-defined transfer identifier.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2008Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Susanne M. Crockett, Ronald King
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Publication number: 20080205618Abstract: A service node is used in the implementation of a call-transfer service in which a service call is transferred to a second agent from a first agent. A code receiver receives from a service control point, via a data link, at least one subscriber-defined call-transfer feature code that can be invoked by the first agent. A call-transferor transfers the service call to the second agent from the first agent in response to the service node receiving a signal from the first agent after the first agent invokes an elective call-transfer function using at least one subscriber-defined call-transfer feature code.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: AT&T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.Inventors: Susanne M. CROCKETT, Ronald KING